... does not have the heft to navigate the complex Eurasian security dynamics, which led to the conflict in Ukraine in the first place. Therefore, if to look beyond the push for peace, growing Western pressure on India for Modi’s controversial visit to Russia, a country that is openly at odds with the Western world, tacitly implied India’s support to Moscow’s geopolitical ambitions (for the West). Hence, Modi’s Moscow visit necessitated a serious recalibration strategy for India if India hoped to maintain its international status as a strategically ...
... the main trade partner for around 140 nations all over the globe. Should we consider all of these nations to be Beijing's junior partners?
Maybe, being a junior partner is not about the absolute size of your trade, but about the trade's structure. The West maintains that Russia's exports to China are not diverse enough: Russia sells mostly oil and gas on a buyer's market, which turns Beijing into a deal-maker, and Moscow—into a deal-taker. This is not entirely true—Russia is consistently diversifying its exports to ...
... implemented both missile and nuclear programmes.
Ivan Timofeev:
New Sanctions Against Russia: Taking a Swing at the Ruble
After the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and the subsequent “tsunami of sanctions” launched against Russia by the collective West, the issue of a coalition was again on the agenda. A big problem for the initiators of sanctions has been third countries that maintain distance from the confrontation with Russia. Thus, while British experts state that sanctions complicate the functioning ...
... here for work, like farmers, etc. For now, there are isolated success stories, but they do exist. I know of many more cases where people simply want to earn money here: to develop our market, to sell their goods here, to build their supply chains in Russia. The Western market is much more divided, and it is much harder to break into it. There are more and more people who agree to work in the Russian market to the detriment of the Western market. True, it is not all that easy in Russia either; you cannot earn ...
... of cows, horses and shepherds with their flocks of sheep give liveliness to this otherwise barren landscape and are a counterpoint to the modern residential complexes.
Insterburg is, among other things, an important railroad junction between East and West, with Russian and European tracks. Many containers went via Insterburg along the Belt&Road. Unfortunately, rail traffic has now been interrupted. Gumbinnen wants to develop into an “economic center,” a “city of change” with an “innovation cluster” ...
... it wrecked arms control with Moscow and the nuclear deal with Tehran; and it continued to constantly provoke China over Taiwan – while launching a trade and technology war against Beijing to hamstring its prime economic competitor.
In the meantime, Russia, India and China – the three leading non-Western countries in Eurasia, as well as many of the continent’s other important independent players, continued to rise economically, as well as consolidate their cooperation. In purchasing-power terms, they currently represent, respectively, the fourth-,...
... complicated process.
In my opinion, the problem is broader than that. We know very little about the history and culture of the vast region to which we belong. I mean Eurasia, of which Russia has always been an integral part. Within this huge continent Russia evolved and developed alongside its neighbors. East and Central Asia, South Asia are no less important for us historically than West Asia (Middle East) and Europe. But at least we all know the history of the latter, simply by virtue of the school background and traditions, while only people keen on Eurasia in its entirety know the history of its other nations.
This does not mean ...
... one can find in it some hints suggesting more nuanced and calibrated positions. For instance, (continental) Europe is treated separately from the United States and other
Anglo-Saxon
states. While the latter is regarded as the main cause of continuous Russia-West confrontation, the former are reprehended mostly for their alleged inability or unwillingness to resist the US pressure and to stand up against the American hegemony [
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“We have never said no to an equal dialogue with our European partners,...
Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine and the subsequent collapse of the Russian-Western relations have had deep transformative effect on the Russian-Chinese relations
Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine and the subsequent collapse of the Russian-Western relations have had deep transformative effect on the Russian-Chinese ...
... that the world desperately needs a higher level of global governance, but the current geopolitical trends push the world in the opposite direction. The exact costs of this movement depend on many independent variables, in particular, on how long the Russia-West conflict may last for and on how comprehensive and radical the US-China strategic decoupling is going to be.
In any case, in 2035 we should be ready to confront a world with lower economic growth, less social cohesion, more explicit and more damaging ...
